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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-03-24, Page 2Mrs. Middleton Collins, R.R. No. 3, Port Perry, Otnt. writes:—“I am tho mother of four children, and after my third baby was born I got rheumatism which left my heart in a very weak condition. I was like that all summer long and could got no relief. My ■later-in-law told me to give feet health. I trust they will help others aB they have helped me.” On tli a first sign of any weakness of the heart or nerves, you should not wait until your case becomes desperate be fore you avail yourself of relief by using Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills as they will tone up and strengthen the nerves, build up the muscles of tho heart, and enrich the blood. Selection of Eggs. Select for color, size and shape, the kind of eggs you want for market. Continuous selection, year’ after year, will give results, Do not select dirty eggs, nor do not handle eggs unless your hand's are clean, The shell is porous, hence there is possible con tamination. Eggs deteriorate in hatching qual ity with age. When you hold eggs for hatching keep them in a cool place about fifty to sixty deg. F. Be sure the place is clean and not musty. Eggs for hatching should be kept not longer than ten days. The eggs from late hatched pullets, or immature birds, seldom hatch as well as eggs from mature birds. Our best hatching eggs nave been pro duced from early hatched pullets that laid well in the early winter and then went through a partial moult. The pullets hatched in early February h^ve, the following spring, produced remarkably good eggs for hatching. Heavy breed pullets hatched in May have produced the poorest hatching eggs,Eggs from birds out of condition, whether from feeding, housing, or management, produce eggs difficult to hatch. It is also true that the hatching power of eggs in a day or two will vary, the cause of which at times is difficult to locate. Improved Table Corn. Three varieties of sweet corn, Pickaninny, Banting and Early Mal colm, produced by the Horticultural Division of the Experimental Farms, give great promise, particularly for the cooler parts of the country. Pick aninny is rather dwarf in habit, bear ing its ears, close to the ground. When ready for use the kernels ar? white with a slight purplibh tinge, broad, moderately deep, very tender and ex tremely sweet. As the -vrn matures J the kernels change to a purplish i ............................ ’ are ............ ....Jr,, also dwarf in habit, was produced from a cross between Pickaninny and Howe’s Alberta Flint. Its habit of growth is much like Pickaninny. The kernels when ready for cooking have an at tractive golden-yellow color, broad, moderately deep, quite sweet and tender. Early Malcolm grows to a ■( height of about five and a half feet, BY L. STEVENSON, O.A.C. ! To determine more accurately the here of the flock will carry the in* affect of cleanliness, test pens were flock. x B .... „ water pens, and soon the entire flockmaintained under farm condit ons . suffering from the same dis- a certain experiment station. Onejease> hen is not particular about pen was given the least possible care,; what she steps in or on what she which meant very little more than,! RiRy feed. r feed and water. . given sufficient .care to maintain. RP thoroughly clean and sanitary quar-| ground is all all the same to the hen; ters. r“ _ ‘ ‘ ...........r ‘ care had a loss of 42 per cent, of the! birds during the 12 months that the| ...... _ ......... ........... experiment was run, against a loss the bowel excreta’there may be the] of but 7 per cent, for the pen that eggs of tapeworm or round worm. I was kept in a sanitary condition by, These worms become so numerous as I simple clean-up methods. The value to cause the death of the bird. The. of the birds lost by neglect in the (eggs are produced in great numbers! h . nwdium m „0110n«pen that was allowed to. become an-, Rnd paswd ollt with the excreta, and I X.”“ ’“S sanitary would have paid the labor. as tn the case of bacteria find their i required to keep the pen clean many Way to the feed trough or water times. It represented a loss of $132 pan by *way of the feet of the fowl, the beginning of tho experiment, all <>f which could have been saved by 15 minutes labor per day being de voted to keeping the pen clean. j WHY WE CLEAN. ’ The object of cleaning is not mere ly to remove all visible forms of filth, but also to remove the invisible forms of life, known as disease-producing j tim to pathogenic bacteria, bacteria. Many poultry keepers con- little more than,! nmy leeu. Dirty feet in the feed;U u, « Another* pen was trough, or watei' pen, or the picking bmck, in which condition they :are to maintain UP of grain from contaminated still tender and sweet. Banting, The pen receiving minimum ’she is not a clean feeder, HARMFUL PARASITES. Besides the harmful bacteria in w,- v------vi xvcu vi tile on a pen that contained 100 birds at ‘ eventually entering the intestinal .tract on food or with drink. External parasites being present in large numbers is generally due to neglect of the flock’s living quarters. Large numbers of skin parasites, as lice, mites and ticks, will so lower ‘ the vitality of a bird that it becomes ' unthrifty, profitless or an easy vic- i bearing twelve rows of kernels, which are very sweet. This is proving a very desirable table-torn. The Report of the Dominion Horticulturist for 1925 shows illustrations of the of these varieties in full size. cobs Sometimes the blunter the state ment the sharper the point. The cleaning of poultry housesPrice 50c, a box at all druggists or sjder the manure as so much lifeless ' should consist of the removal of ma- dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of refuse, but the pathologist knows nure and refuse, the use of insecti price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, t^jg jg true. In a state of • cides to destroy the lice and mites Toronto, Ont. __, health the bowel discharges from! an(i the use of disinfectants to de- ‘ J poultry contain an enormous number J stroy bacteria. Scrape and sand the of organisms which are so small as roosts daily. A CORNER FOR YOUNG CANADA i hinge part of the front so that you __nt i-lin ■vniiYiP* birds BY FRANCES W. HENRY. Painted furniture is one of the purpose, as painters usually do, for it most interesting of tho modern decor- shrinks in drying and frequently ative revivals. The old solid wooden falls out. In its stead fill all such chairs and tables of our grand-: places with common sealing wax, ap- mother’s day when treated with plied by heating an old knife over a present-day paints are far more beautiful than when in their original t-allow candle. Smooth the wax level .............B......., ..... ..... with the surrounding surface. Ap- dress, jjor the very reason that paint ply your second coat over the entire surface and as many more coats as necessary. jv.vvvo n«vu mvuh xu’iswxvu, Always allow at least thirty-six can the better appreciate the sturdy hours between coats for drying. In character of our ancestors and the order to obtain a perfectly smooth utility value of the furniture and finished job, always sand each coat furnishings handed down by them. lightly with No. 0 sandpaper before applying another coat. HOW TO APPLY THE DECORATIONS. This can be done with artists’ paint by' free-hand' drawing, by the use of. stencils or-by applying the transfer designs. If you cannot get these materials locally send to some artists’ supply house or to any of the large mail-order houses. The easiest to apply are tho transfer designs. I Printed instructions for applying are | furnished free with the designs. Af- ■ ter the designs are applied and al- can now he bought in a far greater variety of colors and tints. When these pieces have been restored, we First Care of Chicks. , „ . , , . , . . to be only visible under the highThe first care the chicks receive is p0Wer microscope. The amount of Important. A brooder of some sort feces ^ia^. WOuId adhere to the point should be reauy and there should .be, Q^. & wou](j contain millions of T— « 4. rn •!4* 1-. A *CJ'S 4-Pl jfl. O 1 I.”'f O 1*1*1 irCk r B _ *1*1 1 1bacteria; such might be harmless j or dangerous. The diarrhoeal dis- ! charges from Tick birds may contain • disease-producing bacteria, and thus heat in it before the chicks arrive from the hatchery—a temperature of 100 degrees. This is gradually re-, duced each week until it reaches; about 85 degrees, The length of time. become a serious menace to the other it will take to reach this temperature' • depends upon season and weather, A pan or drinking fountain of milk in some form should be-in readiness. Lacking milk, water must be pro vided, Grit should also be handy for them. Nothing else should be given' until the youngsters are at least 60 hours old. When feeding is started the all mash system may be followed. If grain is used it may be given as a first feed' after the required 60 hours Shave elapsed. ..............._■■■■- >♦<-.,............"JIJ" ■..'■""1 v ■ ....._ How to Get Stung. Get right in front of the hives and make a few quick motions. The first thing you know a bee will hit you about the eye. The bees that buzz about your head or fly out from the hive and swarm about you will seldom sting if you go quietly about your business without swinging at them. ■The bee that means to sting when it starts out flies straight for the eyes and stings as it hits and sends the stinger deeper. When one does get you, never try to pull out the stinger, for that forces the poison from the poison sack deep into the wound. Press the finger nail flat against the skin to one side j and move it across the wound, thus catching the stinger below the poison sack and removing it without getting additional poison in the wound. birds in the pen or yard, Other mem- Choosing the Litter. Hay chaff is a very common litter for chicks, but it is dusty. The dust is bad for the chicks’ eyes and makes the air impure for Eteathii^. Cut straw is also used. It is not dusty, but the sharp pieces may cause eye trouble. Otherwise it is good. Peat lit ter is used in some places with good results. Alfalfa leaves make excel lent litter. Don’t include the fine chaff or dust—just use the leaves. Buckwheat hulls also make excellent litter; they are not dusty, are very absorbent and clean. ' Clean the house thor oughly once every three weeks, change the litter and nests, spray well with a good disinfectant, dig and lime the yard. A hen infected internally or externally with para sites will lose you money; better clean up or give up and cash in the whole outfit before further loss over takes you. Neglected live stock is never profitable. a is One »*♦ Hovz many times have you missed making an entry in the new diary you received the first of the year? Plenty to Drink. A fifty-gallon oil drum can usually be bought for a dollar or even less and used: as a supply for a hen water- er. A poultry man uses this one for some of his 2,-000 hens. The drinking part is a pan made by the local tinner. The oil drum sits in the centre of it. The drum is filled through the regular filler hole. The water flows into the pan through a half-inch hole. This is stopped up while filling the drum with water. He uses a regular threaded plug. What the Sun Will Do. Sunlight helps thicken egg shells. The reasons are these: Egg shells are mainly lime. The hen secretes lime in her body only under stimulus of vita min D. The ultra-violet rays of sun light, unstrained by window glass, assure an abundant supply of vita min D. A SEVERE COLD TURNED TO BRONCHITIS However slight a cold you havo you should nover neglect it. In all possibility, if you do not treat it in time, it will dovelop into bronchitis, pneumonia, or some other serious throat or lung trouble. Mrs. Mariett Gee, R.R. No. 1, Simcoe, Ont., writes:—"I caught a severe cold that settled on, my lungs and turned into’bronchitis. I tried >nainy different remedies, but they all seemed to fail. I then got a bottle of 8>r« Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup and after the first few doses I found wonderful relief, and before I had used the 'whole bottlo I was completely relieved of my trouble.” Piride 35c. n bottlo; large ‘family size 60c. For sale at all druggists and dealers; put up only by Tho T, Milburn Co., Limited/ Toronto, Ont, Nearly Crazy With Headaeta Mrs. G. Brown, Consort, Alta., writes:—"I was troubled with very sovero headaches, and sometimes was nearly crazy with them. One day a friend told me about I Get Hotbed Materials Ready Early. I believe in getting ready for hotbed several .weeks before it actually time to make the bed. who doesn’t prepare in advance may have poor results or fail to start the hotbed at all, because the materials are not ready wlign it is time to plant. Two or three weeks before seed planting time take a quantity of horse manure,.as fresh as may be se cured, add to it about one-third in bulk of short straw or dry leaves and stock it up in a square, flat pile. If the manure itself contains consider able bedding the straw or leaves will not be necessary. Put a quantity of hot, fermenting manure in the centre or the pile and give the whole a thor ough soaking. After four to six days, .when the heap .is beginning to steam, fork it over,'turning it “inside out,” and tramping it down as firmly as possible. To get the very best results the heap should be forked over three or four times at intervals of a little less than a week so that by the time it is ready fo^ the frame the whole mass will be fermenting evenly and be thoroughly hat. A cord of manure will supply heat for four to six standard 3x6-foot Sush. The manure should be packed into the frame from 12 to 20 inches deep, according to the severity of the weather and the kind of vegetables to be started. The hardier things, such as cabbage, let tuce, beets and cauliflower, can be started first and there will be usually sufficient heat left when they are taken out to start such tender crops as tomatoes, peppers, eggplants . and melons.—F. F. R. i LET’S BUILD BIRD HOUSES. 1 hinge part of the front so that you If you want to make friends with Jcan. take a peek at the young us the birds and bring them close to during the nesting season. h your home, where you can have a heap f two boxes which we nia . of fun watching them build their were the simplest she uaif_ nests and feed their young, better get tnn nail- out your tool kit and construct some, nesting boxes. By putting out a few properly made boxes for such birds as the wren, bluebird, flicker and red headed woodpecker,, you can induce these birds to make their homes night in your yard. Their antics during the nesting season will be just like a three-ring circus. There are dozens of that can be secured your nesting boxes, prefers a box most nearly approxi mating its natural home in the woods. How large and in what proportions these nesting boxes should be is given in the following paragraphs, which ■ should be your guide when you begin work: Floor Cavity, inches: House wren, 4 by 4; bluebird, 5 by 5; flicker, 7 by 7; red-headed woodpecker, 6 by 6; chickadee, 4 by 4; nuthatch, .4 by 4; purple martin, 6 by 6, Depth of Cavity, inches: House wren, 6 to 8; bluebird, 7 or 8; flicker, 116 to 18; red-headed woodpecker, 11 to 15; chickadee^^Zr-to 10; nuthatch, 8 to 10; purple ihartin, 6. Entrance Above Floor, inches: House wren, 1 to 5; bluebird, 6; flicker, 15 or 16; red-headed wood pecker, 11 or 12; chickadee, 7 or 8; nuthatch, 7 or 8; purple martin, 11. Diameter of Entrance, i.. Just four weathered, half inch boards were used, a flat top nail ed to the box, a hole the size of a quarter cut in the front, and the en tire outfit nailed to a tree near a d'lning-room window. It was taken within a week by a pair of wrens. No perch is necessary, but if you want to you can nail a small perch at the entrance. Bluebirds make lovely bird neigh bors. They are beautiful to watch, their song is pleading, and they eat no fruit. A more helpful bird to the farmer would be hard to find. By ! all means try to attract one or more pairs of bluebirds into your orchard, where they will wage a continual war on insects. The common starch box with -its sliding cover makes a dandy bluebird home. If one is not avail able you can make a simple shelter eight inches high, with a floor4 space five inches square. Either a sloping cover Oi’ a flat roof will do. If you use unweathered new lumber, be sure and paint the box a dark green or brown. Place the finished box from six to eight feet above the ground on an exposed limb of a tree in the orchard, on a post in the garden, or on a pergola. PLEASING THE WOODPECKERS. In making a home for a flicker or a woodpecker, there id* one important **"Diameter of ’Entrance, inches: thing to keep in mind regarding the House wren, %, bluebird, iy2;, flick-!interior of the finished box. Be sure er, 2%; red-headed woodpecker, 2;! and leave two inches of sawdust in chickadee, 1Y2; nuthatch, 1%; purple the bottom of the cavity for nest‘ng martin, 23/2. } material. Otherwise Mr. Woodpecker Height Above Ground, feet: House!will do to your newly-made box what wren, 5 to 10; bluebird, 5 to 10; flick-the did to my first one. He began er, 6 to 20; red-headed wodopecker,! hammering away and cutting chips 10 to 20; chickadee, 6 to 15; nut-(and sawdust out of the nesting box hatch 12 to 20; purple martin, 15. in order to get nesting material. As to 20. I y®u can imagine, this didn’t help the Of all the desirable birds the wren box any. Another thing, the inside is our favorite. He is peppy, sings of the<>,woodpecker home should be of all the time and add's a lot of life to i rough, unplaned lumber—if it is wood oui’ yard. I-f there is any chance to < with the bark on >so much the better get a family of wrens, better make {—in order that the young birds may at least three houses, as these birds be able to climb up to the entrance hape a habit of starting housekeeping hole. in one box, where they make a dummy j Although homemade boxes are eas- nest, and then moving on to another.; ily constructed and' get birds, nothing Thus two or three boxes are neces-' equals a natural cavity found in the sary to keep your birds "Satisfied. BUNGALOWS FOR WRENS. kinds of birds as tenants in Each species i woods. Here’s a little hide-and-go- and advised me to give it a trial. I decided to do so, and after taking three bottles I found it had done me a woyld of good, and I haven’t had the least sign of a headacho for a long while. ” Put up only by Tho T. Milbum. Co., Limited. Toronto, Ont. When replacing axe handles, put the axe through the wood that is left in the axe. Make the hole large enough to cut the embedded portion into two parts. This will loosen it enough to be easily driven out. • Some folks set the metal in a bed of coals to char the wood, but this draws the temper. Cut down the new handle to fit, heat the end in an oven to drive off all moisture, then set a large wood-screw in the end and cut off the head, or countersink it. When the wood again takes up moisture it will remain tight. in the vise and bore a hole There is much need of more color in the modern home. When select ing the pieces to be repainted, keep in mind the fitness, usefulness and comfort of the several pieces. Also remember that simplicity should be the keynote. For this work do not select ornate or richly upholstered pieces. Carelessness in this and the selection of the wrong color will spoil the entire appearance of the room. In tho selection, decoration and ar ranging of the pieces let the domi- nan note be livability, plus convent- jowe(j harden for at least t\?tenty- four hours, coat the, entire surface of ■the work and the designs with one or more coats of white transparent var nish so that the designs will have protection from wear and cannot easily be rubbed off. A breakfast set of four chairs and' table painted in gray with the turned member on the legs and with the edges of the seats and the edges of the table leaves trimmed in robin’s-egg blue is a color combination that is very pleasing. When walls are of gray and wood work in a deeper shade, hall tables and settees in almost every color— jade, old blue, mulberry or Chinese red—create a note of cheer and sparkle to breakfast nook, library or living room. Gate-leg tables with flower designs of mulberry color and a border line in dull yellow-—end tables with jade green legs, console tables in gray, red or mulberry are beautiful for any hall. Drop-leaf tables—sturdy chairs, can be painted in color to suit any taste or decora tive plan. enee and charm. METHODS EMPLOYED. As to the methods to be employed by the amateur decorator, man or woman, first repaii’ the pieces with prepared glue, brads and screws as skilfully as you know how. Or in the event that the job is beyond you, have some local craftsman do it for you. Clean off the old finish by ap plying liquid paint or varnish re mover according to the printed direc tions on the can. Then wash the surface well with turpentine. When thoroughly dry, sand the entire sur face smooth with No. 1 sandpaper and dust it off well. Now apply a coat of the intended color over the entire surface with a flat two-inch brush. Allow this to dry for at least thirty-six hours and then sand the painted surface lightly with No. 0 sandpaper. This is done to remove all air and dust balls. You are now ready to stop up all holes and splintered places, nail and screw holes. Do not use putty for this Identifying the Bedroom Curtains, I made the glass curtains for all the sleeping rooms of the same material, but the win dows of each room are of dif ferent sizes, so I marked the curtains with colored floss, a few tiny stitches in a corner on the inside of the hem—a dif ferent color for each room. This simplifies matters when it comes time to launder the I Sunflowers for Silage. In many regions of Eastern Can ada where it is tob cool to grow corn successfully the Dept, of Agriculture at Ottawa recommends sunflowers as a substitute for silage purposes. Even in warmer districts where corn grows well sunflowers should be used if the land is a heavy clay, a!s on such soil they usually give a much larger yield than corn. The preparation of .the land for sunflowers is practically the same as for corn. The seeding may be done earlier than corn because the plant can stand a certain degree of frost. The largest yield is obtainedXL uuxixco umu lu wuauc me from the Mammoth Russian variety, curtains, tor with the colored which is well adapted to Eastern marks I can quickly sort out Canada. E L E the various pairs and know where they belong, without going through the tiresome process of measuring them to tell which is which.—Mrs. W. A. C. . It is seeded at the rate of ten pounds per acre with a grain drill in rows 42 inches apart, the plants being thinned to 6 inches apart in the rows. Improving the Tomato. Good progress is being made by the Dominion Horticulturist in de veloping by breeding and selection improved varieties of the tomato. An effort is being made to secure in early varieties the same excellence as some of the later sorts possess. Selected strains produced from crosses of Suffered TemMy From If you havo suffered from constipa tion for years and been subject to all tho miseries associated with it, wouldn’t you consider if a blossing to be able to keep the bowels in a good healthy condition and prevont disease getting a foothold On your system. seek game for you, one that you cani Alacrity, Bonny Best and Livingston ’ ..... H-------a hike Globe, where used in combination,'areUse most any kind of material in play early m the spring. . The birds through the woods and see .if your | showing highly desirable uniformity - - - • fnr AarlinesS. with /fine share andmaking your wren boxes. apparently do not care what kind of, eyes are sharp enough to locate some lumber is selected, nor do they pay 'old woodpecker nests in dead limbs much attention to the shape of the' and stumps. ' s shelter. Miniature log cabins, little j Take a saw with you on the hike, chalets, cylindrical, rectangular and as the idea is to cut off the limbs con- other shaped boxes seem to look alike tabling these old nesting sites and to these birds, and you’ll find that, transplant them in your yard. Saw they are usually the first to occupy. the limb containing the cavity into two parts, as you will want to makeyour boxes. two parts, as you will want to make Although it isn’t absolutely neces- one cut a few inches below the en- saryfo make a box 4x4x6 inches with- trance hole. When you get home you a hinged top, if you can find a small can hinge the two parts together pair of hinges around the workshop ■ after cleaning the cavity and putting by all means use them. Or, better yet, I fresh sawdust in it.—-Bob Becker. MiESbum’s aro indicated just for this purpose; their regular use relieving the worst cases of constipation. Mrs. Philippe Legault, Verner, Ont., writes:—"For many years I havo been troubled with my liver, and suf fered terribly from constipation. I heard about Milburn’s Laxa-Livor Pills and I havo been greatly im proved since I started to use them, and cannot recommend them too highly to anyone who is troubled with their liver, ’ ’ Price ,25c. a vial at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. The Infernal Revenoo Gets Mutt in an Awful Pickle. for earliness, with /fine shape and quality of fruit, A feature of inter est is that where a late maturing var iety like Livingston Globe was cross ed with Bonny Best a reduction in the number of days from sowing the seed to readiness for use was record ed. One, a cross between Alacrity and Bonny Best, 'has given a most promising sort, possessing the earli ness* of Alacrity with the smoothness and symetrical form of Bonny Best. The quality of the fruit is said to be superior to Alacrity,"* being less acid. * MUTT AND JEFF—By Bud Fisher Hgllo, Mutt J mutt, just Bccausg you gauc Your ujifg YouR salary for. THe PAST TUJOYGA^S AN)t> SHG Won't Give You TMe Mongy To SUR.G You'Re Itu JAIL BuT THINK UJHAT THAT W6 CAM PLAY PINOCIALG TO OUR He ARTS CONTENT A Mb Your, can't intgRSgRg this jail will Be lik<£ Hgavcn compaKe£> to YouR H66AG1 LOCK MG UFH T DON'T CARel t ABSOLUTELY Rx=Fuse TO BAY ONE CiSMT OF 1NC0AAE TAXI LOClC M.G upl AiJautt, Your ujvf^S^ GUMMft Be YoulR. CGLU-MATS 1 ?WHAT TH"? YOU'B<= rigKv ;